I wonder if this has anything to do with the current El Niño pattern we’re in. A surge of warm water in already warm waters sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Huge composting effort should be undertaken. As for the nasty smelly gases from it, those should be burned with an excess of oxygen to get rid of any smell.
Of course, many samples should be taken and frozen for lab. analysis.And tinned. Perhaps in oil. Also for, uh, lab analysis.
Dr. Zoidberg we know that’s you.
its ok for people to eat
if its found to be ok to eat that is
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TOKYO (AP) — Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials said Friday.
The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating a sliver blanket along a stretch of beach about a kilometer (0.6 mile) long.
The town, in a notice posted on its website, urged residents not to consume the fish.
The decomposing fish could lower oxygen levels in the water and affect the marine environment, he said.
“We don’t know for sure under what circumstances these fish were washed up, so I do not recommend” eating them, Fujioka said.
Associated Press writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.
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Did they collectively come to the realisation that they were gonna be fished anyway…
Lol were so fucked
Free fish?
Did they test them for toxins?
Some gathered the fish to sell or eat.
Yes, in a way.
That sucks. Its gonna reek for a while.
I can’t believe I haven’t seen a “your mom” joke in here yet! WTF people?!? ;D
The only thing that goes down more than your votes is your mom. There you go.
But then it wouldn’t be a joke, it’d be actually real.
Ah…thank you! Now we’re in the spirit!
The nuclear water release?
Gunna bet it’s a result of the earthquake, water is great at sound transfer and if they were close enough it could have just killed them outright.
Iirc, sardines require cool currents to get through warm(er) water. There’s a thing called the sardine run, where a specific area in the migration path has a (relatively) narrow cold water current that forces them into a bottleneck, and predators feast in a huge spectacle.
What I’m guessing happened was these poor guys were following a cold current that disappeared, and died of heat exhaustion. Which iirc isn’t that uncommon of an occurrence
That sounds very reasonable and all, but I’m gonna guess some of those fish were gay and God smited (smote?) them with holy fury. What follows after that is lots of dead gay fish.
Do you like fishsticks?
WHAT?!?
I’m a lyrical genius.
This one sounds more logical and likely. But not as conspiracy-fun as the nuclear water one
Absolutely not. They type, amount, and location of material would not cause this.
This comment shows that you don’t understand anything about the tritiated water release.
